What are you reading?

[shadesong]

At lunch: "Familiars", a Daw anthology edited by Denise Little. Yes, there exists an anthology that isn't edited by Martin Greenberg. :)

At home: "So You Want to be a Wizard?" by Diane Duane. Yes, it's YA. I'm reading this in bed, I'm shleepy, I need something easy to follow.

Just finished: The massive "Box Office Poison" trade paperback. Good stuff.

You?

Comments

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

I'm creeping towards the end of Shelby Foote's history of the Civil war. I'm also reading (and being bewildred by) Thomas Merton's "The New Man". I just started Anthony Bourdain's Very funny memoir/food-porn "Kitchen Confidential", partly I'm going to be playing a cook in an upcoming role playing game (Kitchen Staff:The Health Code Violation =;) ) and partly because my recent reading has been so heavy that I'm dying for some fluffier stuff. I have a stack of novels as tall as I am waiting for when I finally finish Foote.

Also, "Box Office Poison" is my second or third favorite Graphic novel right now. It's basically everything I ever wanted to do in my own comics, except with people instead of funny animals. I also like the fact the the artist (whose name I can't remember) depects overweight women as attractive; media in general needs more of that.

[yendi]

Yeah, when I finished BoP, I raved about it to shadesong and told her she had to read it. :-) It's Alex Robinson, btw. And yeah, I loved his women -- they were all gorgeous, even though they'd never have been allowed inside a Top Cow comic. Or probably because they wouldn't have been allowed there.

I loved Kitchen Confidential. He also wrote a nice history of Typhoid Mary, approaching it from a cook's prespective.

[edie22.livejournal.com]

I'm reading HP#3 the Prisoner of Azkaban. Again. I am really upset with JK Rowlings. Making us wait forever for book 5. Fascist.

Helpfull bookstore clerkness

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

I know! It's currently slated to come out november of NEXT YEAR! O.O

Re: Helpfull bookstore clerkness

[edie22.livejournal.com]

Yeah. She's evil. That's way too fricken long. I'm going to have to find something else to read. Something that's light, and fun, not too sci-fi-ish, I'm a newbie geek.

Re: Helpfull bookstore clerkness

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

That long? Shit!! I've had writer's block, but this is nuts.

[olliesmama.livejournal.com]

Try waiting ten years for Jean Auel to come out with the fifth book in her series, Shelters of Stone!!!!

Re:

[edie22.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been waiting for that one too. I must have re-read that series about 3 times too. Hmm... I should get that book. It's only in hard cover tho, isn't it?

[olliesmama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and I went out and rebought the other four in paperback (they have a new cover) so I am waiting for one more year for SoS to come out in the same.....unless I go to the library and borrow the hardback edition! Now everytime I think of Ayla, I see Daryl Hannah! LOL

Current reading

[songwind.livejournal.com]

At Work/Home #1 - The Black Company by Glenn Cook

At work/home #2 - Shadowland by Peter Straub

Just Finished - Helstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert.

I just had a big trip to the used bookstore, can you tell?

[olliesmama.livejournal.com]

I just finished Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl : The definitive Edition. It definitely tells a lot more than the one we read in school.
Now I am reading The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer : My Life at Rose Red. It's even creepier than the movie, mostly because I know it's a true story!

[sambear.livejournal.com]

Let's see, I just got finished reading the Sandman collection "Fables & Reflections" and am hoping to get into real reading as soon as my WRITING is done. Got some more words last night, so it's SOOOO CLOSE.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Finish your writing so yendi and I can meet you!

What I'm reading...

[alphafem.livejournal.com]

FINALLY FINISHED: Flesh and Blood by Johnathan Kellerman. Found it almost impossible to get through. I just didn't care whodunit. Which is bad for a mystery novel!!!
STARTED AND LOVING: Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
STILL READING: I Used to have a Handle on Life but it Broke. There have been some thought provoking parts of it thus far.
And when cleaning yesterday I found four books I'd started to read and then lost in the rubble of the boychild and the hubby's overwhelming mountains of STUFF. They will go back onto the TBR pile currently amassing under my bed (50+ books last I looked!) for later comsumption...

[gallowglass.livejournal.com]

Here, upstairs The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian, work related but an epic nonetheless.
Downstairs Jester Leaps In by Alan Gordon, the sequel to his excellent Thirteenth Night. I've only just started it but it's showing promise.
Travelling with me between the two floors, as and when I remember it is Death and Restoration by Iain Pears. Not my favourite mystery series set in Italy but not bad either.

[settsimaksimin.livejournal.com]

hrm. the Diane Duane Wizard books are supposed to be quite good. let me know, will ya?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Sure will!

[nomadmwe.livejournal.com]

Whee, I've read the first three of the "So You Want..." books.

Much fun. I liked them lots. :)

[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

I seem to be in sort-of-fluff reading mode this week. I finished "Possession" a couple of weeks ago (it was nummy, but I have great trepidation about the forthcoming movie. It's a huge book with lots of internal stuff), then I read a mystery series by a local (Annapolis, MD) author--Marcia Talley. Quite good--the characters matter more than the mysteries. Now I'm halfway through Katie Fforde's "Second Thyme Around," which is fun and amusing. It's in the nearly-30-romanticish-novel genre, but more like Marian Keyes than Helen Fielding.

I have "Perdido Street Station" waiting to be read--got it at the very local used book store--because China Mieville is doing a reading/signing for its sequel next week at the Borders where I used to shop. I also have Charles de Lint's "Seven Wild Sisters" and "The Road to Lisdoonvarna" to read, but I haven't been in the mood. Also just bought "Godel, Escher, Bach," which I've been meaning to read for years, because it was on the "Staff Recommends" shelf at B&N, so I got a total of 30% off the price. Ooh, and I keep forgetting that I finally bought Terri Windling's/Wendy Froud's "The Winter Child" and need to read it!

I am SO frigging far behind in my posts!

[ga-sunshine.livejournal.com]

I am really far behind in "reading" my friends' posts for starters, but here goes --

1) at home/nightstand -- rereading "The Hobbit"
2) at home to child -- "Mysterious Island" -- this is Book 3 of "Secrets of Droon"
3) at home/living room -- "Dreamcatcher" by Stephen King
4) at work during lunch -- "Toddler Adoption"